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Nvidia 295 and 470 seems to be close in specs and price, except 295 has more mem. Which should perform better? Should there be big difference with 480?
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the GTX470 will be the best.
it has more memory and should be at least as fast and probably faster in the upcoming optimized builds.

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radiance wrote:the GTX470 will be the best.
it has more memory and should be at least as fast and probably faster in the upcoming optimized builds.

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More memory? That's why i ask. According to NVidia:
GTX470 is 1280MB and 448 cores
GTX295 1792MB and 480 cores (+higher mem bandwidth/fillrate)
There must be something I don't know though...
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in fact the gtx295 has two gpu on one card as you may know , so it has 2x 896mb memory and this doesn't add up as the memory is not shared between gpu's , the data is replicated. (and its true when you have several cards as well).
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Amplitude wrote:in fact the gtx295 has two gpu on one card as you may know , so it has 2x 896mb memory and this doesn't add up as the memory is not shared between gpu's , the data is replicated. (and its true when you have several cards as well).
Didn't know the memory is not shared. Thanks!
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